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Mari Esabel Valverde
Mari Esabel Valverde
Best Wishes
Composed for a family friend’s wedding and is appropriate for the celebration of love between any two persons.
for SATB chorus a cappella
With words and music by Mari Ésabel Valverde, “Best Wishes” was composed for a family friend’s wedding and is appropriate for the celebration of love between any two persons. Sung in four parts a cappella, this work is melodically and harmonically accessible, and its lyrics are adaptable to any gender.
Composer’s Notes
With words and music by Mari Esabel Valverde, “Best Wishes” was composed for a family friend’s wedding and is appropriate for the celebration of love between any two persons. Sung in four parts a cappella, this work is melodically and harmonically accessible, and to include a variety of gender identities and sexual orientations, its lyrics may be adapted. The words “him,” “he,” and “his” may be replaced with “her,” “she,” and “her” or “them,” “they,” and “their,” respectively, as appropriate.
This choral work is among the very first completed by the composer. It was written during her first year as an undergraduate student at St. Olaf College and was performed for the first time at her senior composition recital, in 2010, by a cohort of 24 students under the direction of a student conductor.
-Mari Esabel Valverde
Text
Let your love be ever blessed.
Let you hold yourselves with love,
And your days be simply filled with joy.
Let him cry on your shoulder
When he is sad.
Let you cry in his arms
When you are glad.
Let the words of your love be true.
Let them live through all you do.
Let us praise and share in your love,
But let us not know the greatness of your love!
For it is yours,
And only yours.
It is soft.
It is sweet.
But let it be the strongest thing that you know
So that it may always keep.
-Mari Esabel Valverde
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